Co-published with Jacobin. When schools offer universal free meals, hungry kids eat. They also have better academic performance, behavior, attendance, and psychosocial functioning.

Co-published with Jacobin. School meal programs across the US are in disarray due to major staffing shortages and exploitative business practices, and kids are shouldering the burden.

EHRP executive director Alissa Quart discusses themes from her new book 'Bootstrapped,' which looks at how the American notion of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps creates harm.

Alissa Quart, director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP), recently authored a book called Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream. Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart …

Co-published with Teen Vogue. It’s a hard term to pin down because it shapes our lives in so many ways.

Co-published with The Washington Post. Politicians are beginning to more regularly challenge the "bootstraps" model.

Co-published with The Nation. Pronouncing debt cancellation DOA takes the Supreme Court’s ruling as the last word—precisely at the moment when the court’s authority demands challenge, not complacency.

The Horatio Alger Association is one of the institutions that Alissa Quart, a journalist and the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, critiques in her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating …

Co-published with TIME. Relentless individualism has been part of America's ethos. Not anymore, writes Alissa Quart.

Co-published with The New York Times. Americans are taught that they have to go it alone. That’s a dangerous myth.

Co-published with Grist. Landslides are one of Kentucky's costliest natural disasters. Climate change is increasing their danger.

Co-published with The Boston Globe. Looking at equity and equality through class could level the playing field for low-income students of all backgrounds.